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The outer edge of the storm hit the southern coast of Santa Catarina with 55 mph gusts and heavy rains a little before 11 p.m., said Clovis Correa of the State Meteorological Institute.
The storm damaged homes, downed trees and knocked out power for several hundred thousand people across some 40 municipalities, said civil defense officials in the two southern states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.
"Fortunately, there has not been a single report of major injury or loss of life as yet," said Ariel Goncalves, a spokesman for the Rio Grande do Sul Civil Defense Agency.
The storm hit land around the beach resort of Laguna, a town of 40,000 inhabitants. It also brushed Torres, a city of 400,000 in the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul.
"We expect the rain and wind to rage for a couple of more hours, then the storm will back off a bit and hit again around three o'clock in the morning," Correa said.
Laguna and Torres are about 500 miles south of Rio de Janeiro.
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Still denying hurricane but some damage, deaths and blackouts have occured...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A rare cyclone bringing strong winds and rain may have killed seven fishermen and had damaged houses and caused blackouts on the southern coast of Brazil, civil defense officials said on Sunday.
Brazil's official weather service has denied the weather phenomenon is a hurricane as U.S. meteorologists said earlier, but warned of gusty winds in the southern state of Santa Catarina on Sunday.
"The center of the cyclone is already above the ground in Santa Catarina and we have some municipalities without power, some roofs damaged by wind and by trees," said Civil Defense Capt. Marcio Luiz Alves.
He said one fishing boat sank on Saturday night and its crew of seven was missing.
"There are fears that they drowned, Also, there are four fishing boats in a critical situation as they cannot return to the shore due to the storm," Alves said.
Wind speed in some areas of Santa Catarina reached over 60 mph, while waves reached to 16 feet.
Alves said an early storm warning allowed civil defense officials to warn residents and many had left the shore area.
He said the storm was expected to lose its strength by the morning as it hit a mountain range.
On Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the first hurricane ever was forming in the south Atlantic off the coast of Brazil, classifying it as a Category 1 hurricane -- the least powerful on forecasters' five-level scale, with winds between 74 and 95 mph.
Kelen Andrade, a meteorologist with the state Weather Forecasting and Climatic Studies Center said that while satellite images could have suggested a hurricane, more detailed studies showed an extratropical cyclone.
"Brazil has never had hurricanes and it is not having one now," she said, explaining the eye of a hurricane was hotter than its edges, while the center of an extratropical cyclone, which forms above colder waters, was cold.
Wind speed in a cyclone also tended to be lower than that of a hurricane, weather officials said.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=4678002
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A rare cyclone bringing strong winds and rain may have killed seven fishermen and had damaged houses and caused blackouts on the southern coast of Brazil, civil defense officials said on Sunday.
Brazil's official weather service has denied the weather phenomenon is a hurricane as U.S. meteorologists said earlier, but warned of gusty winds in the southern state of Santa Catarina on Sunday.
"The center of the cyclone is already above the ground in Santa Catarina and we have some municipalities without power, some roofs damaged by wind and by trees," said Civil Defense Capt. Marcio Luiz Alves.
He said one fishing boat sank on Saturday night and its crew of seven was missing.
"There are fears that they drowned, Also, there are four fishing boats in a critical situation as they cannot return to the shore due to the storm," Alves said.
Wind speed in some areas of Santa Catarina reached over 60 mph, while waves reached to 16 feet.
Alves said an early storm warning allowed civil defense officials to warn residents and many had left the shore area.
He said the storm was expected to lose its strength by the morning as it hit a mountain range.
On Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the first hurricane ever was forming in the south Atlantic off the coast of Brazil, classifying it as a Category 1 hurricane -- the least powerful on forecasters' five-level scale, with winds between 74 and 95 mph.
Kelen Andrade, a meteorologist with the state Weather Forecasting and Climatic Studies Center said that while satellite images could have suggested a hurricane, more detailed studies showed an extratropical cyclone.
"Brazil has never had hurricanes and it is not having one now," she said, explaining the eye of a hurricane was hotter than its edges, while the center of an extratropical cyclone, which forms above colder waters, was cold.
Wind speed in a cyclone also tended to be lower than that of a hurricane, weather officials said.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=4678002
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